president killed himself and their ceo was indicted in this giant corruption scandal, the news of that $150,000 payment to michael cohen at that time, it was first reported in these documents released last night by michael avenatti. subsequent to mr. avenatti putting that information out there, the washington post got to work trying to track down and confirm that part of the story, and a lot of other people had called them and initially korea aerospace industries gave everybody else who was looking for explanation a no comment, but they finally came up with something to say. they finally came up with an initial explanation for that payment in time to say this to the washington post. quote, korea aerospace industries confirmed to the washington post that it paid $150,000 to cohen s company, but spokesman oh sung-keon said that aerospace industries was not aware of the company s connection to president trump. the company said it paid michael cohen s firm, quote, to affirm
those questions or questions like them led to the fourth revision of novartis statement today. a spokesman for the company now telling reporter ed silverman at statnews.com which is a health care reporting outfit, a spokesman for the company telling stat news, quote, this episode was clearly a mistake. novartis also admitting in this final statement, and who knows if it s a final statement. maybe there will be yet more revisions. novartis ultimately admitting that not only did they get questioned as a corporation about this deal with michael cohen, but their previous ceo, who quit unexpectedly last fall, and he is being blamed now for having set up this deal with michael cohen, the company is now admitting that their previous ceo, he also was personally interviewed by the lawyers from mueller s office. novartis has had its own problems with corruption. two years ago they paid $25 million to settle an investigation that they bribed people in china to help their business.